Scientists take antimatter on first road trip as they study how to navigate with ultra-sensitive cargo
The entire process is expected to take about four hours
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The Trip to the Far Side of the Moon
As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth …
New study upends theory about how humans got to the Americas
For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called …
A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow 'Organ Sacks' to Replace Animal Testing
R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term …
US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US
Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.
Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help
Undergraduate's prototype conductive nail polish could turn long fingernails into touchscreen styluses.
Donut Lab’s solid-state battery could barely hold a charge after getting damaged
Donut Lab is on a mission to prove to the world its solid-state battery is real, one independent test at …
It's possible to turn around a groundwater crisis
Analyzing dozens of cases around the world yields some practical lessons.
Research reveals dolphins use baby talk and call each other by ‘name’
Scientists studying dolphin communication have made a number of breakthroughs
A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it
Katalyst Space Technologies must launch the Swift rescue mission by this summer.
Your citizens don't stay put in Stellaris-style 4X strategy game Final Vanguard - start a war and "entire waves of refugees can emerge"
Final Vanguard is a real-time sci-fi 4X grand strategy game that puts an unusually big emphasis on migration. We've seen …
Iran threatens mass ‘water war’ with strikes on key plants in days, UN official warns
Iran threatens to target desalination and energy infrastructure within days, a U.N. official warns, citing lasting consequences for global markets …
Mining the deep ocean
Policymakers debate if we even need deep ocean mining and if we can do it safely.
Woman claims space rock smashed into house after Houston-area blast rattles residents
A Houston-area woman claims a suspected meteorite crashed through her roof after a mysterious boom rattled the region, leaving a …
Never-before-seen photos of Neil Armstrong's near-fatal NASA mission surface 60 years later
Neil Armstrong photos from NASA's 1966 Gemini 8 emergency splashdown near Japan are now public, donated to the Armstrong Air …
Trump threatens to deploy ICE agents to airports amid funding fight, vows arrests of illegal aliens
President Donald Trump warns he will deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports to arrest illegal immigrants if Democrats refuse to …
DNA building blocks on asteroid Ryugu, bacteria that eat plastic waste, and more science news
Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? …
We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us?
This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries.
How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
“Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do.”
Once again, ULA can't deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit
ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle is grounded after a solid rocket booster anomaly last month.